Clowning around.
It seems the turnover of businesses within the city is high. New restaurants, coffee shops, and cell phone stores spring up regularly, to sit empty, and exchange occupants within months. Due to this phenomenon, there is an industry subsisting on what can only be labeled as, "Grand Open." The facades of newly opened businesses are decorated with balloons, flowers, flags, music, dancing girls, and sometimes clowns on stilts. It's been said, a Korean tradition is to include a pig head in the grand opening ceremony; new patrons, family, and friends can place money in the pig's mouth as a show of support.
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